Crank Software's Storyboard Suite

Crank Software is working hard to change how embedded user interface (UI)
solutions are developed. Traditional development methodologies, asserts
the Crank group, leave designers on the sideline after the artwork has
been handed off to the software developers. This linear process typically
leads to a UI that isn't a true reflection of the design vision and
is difficult to update.

Enter Storyboard Suite 5.0, Crank Software's
recently updated turnkey UI development software that gives designers
and developers the tools to work collaboratively and iterate the UI and
UX to perfection in a fraction of the time. Storyboard Suite supports
graphic designers and engineers equally with innovative features and
an intuitive workflow that allows them to work in parallel to deliver
UIs that are modern, scalable and optimized for embedded products.

The
platform is powerful enough to create high-end, sophisticated UIs yet
easy to learn and use without requiring hardware decisions to be made
up front. Teams can be productive from the beginning of a project
through to final delivery, saving valuable resources and costs and
delivering powerful user experiences in less time.

New features in
version 5.0 include finer execution control and custom easing rates for
improved animations and movement; ready-to-use, sharable components for
quick prototyping and test UI interactions; a new render extension to
facilitate drawing and graphing programmatically; and an exports option
that simplifies sharing of Storyboard applications for quick testing to
improve the feedback loop for design iteration. Storyboard Suite offers
Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS and Windows versions.